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Romney picks Ryan for VP

Ryan: We won't duck tough issues

“It’s an honor to announce my running mate as the next vice president of the United States, Paul Ryan. His leadership begins with character and values…Paul Ryan works in Washington but his beliefs remain firmly rooted in Janesville, Wis.”

“It’s now two on two instead of two on one,” Romney told reporters on a flight from Northern Virginia to Charlotte, N.C. on Saturday evening. “It’s nice when on stage to have someone else up there, pushing the message.”

“It’s gone from the surreal to the real,” the Wisconsin congressman said. “By the time we met in person, I kind of knew what was going to happen, I was thrilled. It was the biggest honor.

“We have the wind behind us, we’re going to win this campaign,” Ryan said. “I’ve spent most of my adult life fighting for these ideas, I know we can fix the problems that face this country.”

Earlier, the pair took a bus tour across Virginia, stopping in a suburb outside Richmond and in northern Virginia, and were greeted by enthusiastic overflow crowds along the way.

The final stop in Manassas, a Washington, D.C. suburb, boasted an overflow crowd of more than 8,000, according to the campaign, that displayed exuberance and excitement as Ryan slipped easily into the traditional VP attack-dog role.

“He stayed hard left, so what does he have left?” Ryan said of Obama in Mansassas. “He’s going to try to distract this country to try to win by default.”

Ryan was quick to offer soundbites bolstering the top of the ticket.

“Mitt Romney is the kind of man with the integrity and the experience that we need,” Ryan said.

As Ryan talked up the Republican nominee, the crowd broke in to spontaneous chants of “USA.”

In the morning when Romney tapped Ryan, he offered a glowing endorsement as he ushered Ryan into the presidential campaign limelight, depicting him as a conservative who will bring substance to the ticket.

Referring to Ryan’s plan to overhaul Medicare, which Democrats are planning to brandish as a campaign weapon, Romney painted the Romney choice as a promise of a more substantive campaign from the Romney-Ryan ticket.

“He doesn’t demonize his opponents. He appeals to the better angels of our nature.”

“There are a lot of people in the other party who might disagree with Paul Ryan. I don’t know anybody who doesn’t respect his character and judgment,” Romney added. “We’re offering a positive governing agenda that will lead to economic growth.”

After the unveiling in Norfolk, the pair rode two hours north to a duo of campaign stops in Ashland, a suburb of Richmond.

The Wyden / Ryan Bi-partisan Medicare plan will be passed in 2013 saving Medicare and start the process of fixing America's popular but troubled entitlement programs.

......a BRILLIANT choice....

Next year a UNITED America will begin to implement the changes needed to save our entitlement programs starting with the Bi-Partisan Ryan Wyden plan: 12/15/2011 @ 2:36PM |5,578 views Ron Wyden and Paul Ryan's Bipartisan Plan for Health Care and Medicare Reform

Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.). Image by Getty Images via @daylife

This morning, Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden (Ore.) and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.) have shaken up Capitol Hill with an intriguing, bipartisan plan for reforming Medicare, and also the private-sector employer-sponsored insurance system. Politically, the plan is a huge boost to Mitt Romney, whose own remarks on Medicare reform hew closely to Wyden-Ryan; and also to House Republicans, who now have an easy retort to Democrats who were planning to attack Medicare reformers in the 2012 campaign. Substantively, the plan has many encouraging qualities, but there are also some important blanks that Wyden and Ryan will need to fill in.

I wonder if Ryan should have been president and Romney VP , but it's all good...congratulation...I loved their speeches.....and I was "for the first time proud to be an american" ha ha ha at least for the first time in 4 years...ha ha ha and that wasn't even a gaffe from Michell Obama she really meant it...ha ha ha

And don't say Ryan attacks medicare...Romney promised to keep up Social Security and Medicare , besides Obama cut 500 Billion..so the liberals.don't have a leg to stand on , and we seniors have nothing to worry about anyhow....for us nothing changes...except we may now get a living cost increase....we will see......Obama in my opinion has a big mouth and promises...but he has not kept his promises, except killing the old Bin Laden who really didn't have that much to say...having said that, he killed a symbol.....but AlQuaida hasn't hold back and is in Libya...just what Obama and his french buddy was trying to prevent...AlQuaida is in Africa....even Kenya....Obama's stumping ground and maybe birthplace....Tunesia where Obama went to school....and all the homegrown ones we have here.....Obama and Holder must be voted out....he can become a preacher...or make speeches at black colleges....for thousands of dollars....probably paid by the taxpayer....money goes round and round , round and round...and if Obama is out...Clinton finally loses his power..that would be nice....because him and her have become also hypocrits..or they always were who knows..

If you're sick and tired of kicking the can down the road, of politicians offering no plan to save our nation from the coming fiscal cliff, while demonizing those with the courage to stand up and offer realistic solutions, join us, we need you!

Ryan has the right ideas to move this country forward.

By introducing competition and choice for medicares dollars, it will strengthen and save the program. Obama and the Democrats offer no plan of their own, which is to let it go bankrupt and not be there for this generation, let alone the next.

Ryan also wants to remove the special interest tax loopholes in the tax code, to get our taxes to globally competitive rates. Right now if you or I started a business, we'd pay the highest corporate tax rate in the world, before state and local taxes. However entrenched players like GE, with their lobbyist and campaign donations can legally pay no federal taxes. By removing those special interest loopholes, Ryan levels the playing field for everyone. We can all compete on the same playing field, and this will introduce social mobility back to the middle class!

Please do not stand with those who offer no solutions, and only demonize those who do. It's time to get serious America, it's time to face the challenges of this generation.

This is the best hope of saving our country from further financial ruin. If they are elected, we may have the chance to avoid going through the hard times that Europe is experiencing right now. It will take the will of all our citizens to change so many of our self-destructive patterns of the last few decades.

WHY AMERICA IS GOING BANKRUPT—CORPORATE RICH BUMS AND FOREIGN ADVENTURISM, NOT THE POOR AND MIDDLE CLASS. If all or most of the tax loopholes were to be closed today, we save ourselves immediately more than $1 Trillion dollars. Think about that! Funny enough, the rich and the corporations write the tax code and get it through a corrupt American Congress. And they still manage to regale us about the absurdity of our complicated tax laws. Yet, they made the tax code so complicated, with so many riders and footnotes to hide their tax escapades and malfeasance. To give you one glaring but quite popular rich people’s game on this, Romney buys a horse supposedly to help heal his wife. The horse is trained instead to dance at the Olympics. Cost to taxpayers: $77,000+ in annual tax breaks. You can bet many other rich people are doing this. Tabulate the various tax breaks for the rich and corporations, including those that allow them to pack their money abroad, and you are looking thousands of millions annually. The cost of privilege and connection is truly killing this country. It includes buying the best Congress you get and now may include buying Congress and the Presidency through a more pervasive influence of money in politics. In fact a valid argument can be made that America is no longer a credible democracy! The corporations and the rich become very rich through government and military supply contracts where, unashamedly, they can sale the government one single pencil for between $17 and $70.Those who supply our hospitals have been caught several times in huge frauds, and they get away often in fines instead of jail times. The new game in time is the use of political PACS to enrich and at least sustain one’s self in style. Thus, the likes of Sarah Palin and newt Gingrich write otherwise near useless political diatribes as books, raise a lot of money, get their PACS to buy much of their books and declare nearly all money spent as business expenses. So, don’t blame the poor, the elderly and the weak for America’s financial problems made worse by unnecessary wars (like the one in Iraq). Blame those responsible—the privileged rich and corporations and the politically connected!!! As you begin to hear the Tea Party, Romney, Ryan, the Koch Brothers and the likes increase the decibel on the deficit reduction issue, know what is at stake. They are the ones financing the loud cries of “socialism” where there is not so they can continue their feast on the system. Tell them we need a fair and balanced approach. Put the blame where it belongs! What we need more an anything first is a just society and thus the revamping of the middle class.